Understand mentoring principles

  • Definition & Purpose Mentoring is a developmental relationship based on trust, respect, and integrity, fostering personal and professional growth

  • Benefits for Mentees Expect clarity of goals, empowerment, expanded networks, and improved performance and satisfaction

  • Key Roles While your mentor offers advice, connections, and reflections, your responsibilities include proactively setting goals, driving the relationship, and following through on actions

  • What does a mentor do?

    A Mentor
    A Mentor is not:

    Listens well

    A talker

    Identifies problems

    The problem owner

    Guides and facilitates

    A decision maker

    Provides experience/wisdom

    A short term fix

    Suggests choices, tentatively

    An emotional support

    Identifies resources

    A provider of resources

    Knows his/her own limitations

    Someone who can do it all

    Provides information or signposts

    Someone who has all the answers

    Displays empathy

    Judgmental

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